Trip-hailing big Uber is to arrange its first information centre in India in partnership with the Adani Group, marking a significant enlargement of the ride-hailing firm’s know-how operations within the nation.

Uber CEO Dara Khosrowshahi introduced the event after assembly Gautam Adani in Ahmedabad on Wednesday, describing India as “a number one innovation hub for Uber”.

“As India quick emerges as a number one innovation hub for Uber, we’re establishing our first information centre within the nation with the Adani Group to check and deploy our tech,” Khosrowshahi wrote in a submit on X.

Nice to fulfill @gautam_adani in Ahmedabad this morning and construct on our current partnership with the Adani group.

As India quick emerges as a number one innovation hub for @Uber, we’re establishing our first information middle within the nation with the Adani Group to check and deploy our tech.… pic.twitter.com/jll5NcPT4l

— dara khosrowshahi (@dkhos) May 13, 2026

The power is anticipated to turn into operational later this 12 months and can help Uber’s international know-how ambitions from India.

“Prepared later this 12 months, this funding will assist us construct at scale, from India, for the world,” he added.

The announcement got here a day after Khosrowshahi met Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman to debate Uber’s long-term plans in India, which has turn into a key development marketplace for the corporate.

Following the assembly, Khosrowshahi stated Uber considered itself as a long-term companion in India’s “Viksit Bharat 2047” imaginative and prescient, including that the variety of earners on its platform within the nation had quadrupled since his earlier assembly with the finance minister in 2022.

He additionally held talks with former NITI Aayog CEO and G20 Sherpa Amitabh Kant throughout his five-day go to to India.

The transfer comes as international know-how corporations improve funding in India’s AI and information centre infrastructure, pushed by rising demand for localised information storage and the federal government’s push for digital sovereignty.

OpenAI has signed on as the primary buyer for TCS’s new AI information centre enterprise, which is beginning with 100MW of capability and will scale in direction of 1GW, whereas Reliance Industries is constructing services in Jamnagar and Visakhapatnam.

Amazon has additionally dedicated $12.7 billion in direction of cloud infrastructure in India by 2030.

Earlier this week, IT Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw stated Google was “significantly contemplating” manufacturing AI servers in India, including that the federal government had inspired international know-how corporations to discover native manufacturing.

The newest deal additionally strengthens Adani Group’s rising presence within the AI and information centre sector by AdaniConneX, its digital infrastructure enterprise.

On the India AI Impression Summit in February, Adani Group announced plans to invest $100 billion in renewable-energy-powered, hyperscale AI-ready information centres by 2035.

Final 12 months, AdaniConneX partnered with Google and Bharti Airtel to develop a big AI-focused information centre campus in Visakhapatnam, Andhra Pradesh.